I am thinker above all else; I daily ponder life and its effects; I question and reason meaning for existence itself and why the need to find meaning in seemingly chaotic and unrelated events and happenstances.
By chance, or not, I came across a book named The Secret, or rather a movie for which a book was made and this book has explained something that I have understood from my mother and father, grandmothers and grandfathers, and friends.
The premise is that our thoughts create our reality; our thoughts use a natural law called The Law of Attraction, (which on the surface sounds hokey, but with thoughtfulness, becomes understandable) that is used constantly to build our lives; we build that which we desire from the thoughts we entertain whether the be good or whether they be bad and the preconceived notions and beliefs contained within those thoughts.
I was unprepared for the shock and realization of what these thoughts entailed and many examples in my life that demonstrate this principle and law with clarity and insight I believed not possible.
As of late I have been watching Season 7 of the x-files. The episode I started on tonight when I got home from work is titled “All Things.” This episode just happens to be on the subject of which I speak. Dana Scully is herself undergoing just a transformation of thought and understanding as to make her question the invalidity of her preconceived ideas and notions. The story takes us to her dissatisfaction with her current involvement in the FBI with Fox Mulder and her desire for something more; something more than mere existence without substance for which Mulder, of late, has had an unrelenting propensity. Scully goes to a hospital in the DC area to complete the workup of an autopsy she had performed and Mulder’s behest and, she, by chance, discovers an x-ray in the envelope given to her for someone with which she had an affair many years ago.
As the story progresses, it becomes apparent that the universal idea and notion of the Law of Attraction is evident and I venture to suppose even instinctual within us.
She makes these remarks to her old lover:
It’s time that you took responsibility for the hurt you caused your family.
It’s no accident you got sick Daniel.
You’ve been running from the truth for ten years.
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My mind has been occupied with these things; then, a television show that I put on (of which I have long since forgotten), brings to bear the information that I’ve been researching and starting to understand more fully.
Does what we think and what we truly believe become our reality? If we believe negatively that our life is hard, unresponsive, dead, and ill-conceived, is that what we get? Do those negative emotions give us a reality of primarily negativity? Is it unwavering faith in an idea, concept, notion, or quality within ourselves, a want or desire, that in turn causes the manifestation of said idea, concept, notion, quality, want or desire in spite of the “truth” that we perceive regardless of the nature of the idea; that being the impossibility of it?
In 1912 a man by the name of James Allen wrote a book entitled “As A Man Thinketh”. It’s a selection of short essays that expound upon and relate more eloquently than I, the qualities of which I write.
I purchased this book over a year ago and read it. Not realizing it, I had already put his idea into motion that my thoughts caused me to physically move from where I was to where I am now.
As an example, of which I can attest in my own life, in 2005 I envisioned moving from where I lived in Oklahoma to where I live now. The reasons for the move are not important however what I did and believed are. When I had made up my mind to move I had no idea how I could make it happen or become a reality; truth be told it was a miracle that it happened at all. I had no money with which to move, I had no job to move into, I had no place to live once I got there, but yet, with a conviction that I had not had for many a year, I believed I would move. In less than six months of my initial expressed desire, I was moved. Everything fell into place; and I mean everything. I was able to get people to rent my house in Oklahoma. I found money (or the money found me) that I didn’t know I had with which to move. I found a house in this area within three days and that in and of itself was a miracle. I got a job that I had wanted to have for a long time as well. Everything fell into place.
This quote is from the book and it exemplifies this idea succinctly:
The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, this you will become.
For years I have, by my own admission, done just such a thing and it has produced both good and bad fruit and produced exactly what I believed I would have and what I believed I would be. It did not register in my mind until tonight the pervasiveness of this “Law of Attraction” that I drew unto me that which I believed in my heart.
Now, do I believe that thought without action can produce results? I'm not sure, but I lean that it does not. If we want the best for our life, our thoughts will lead us to do the "right" things to obtain that which we want. Even when we want the best, our negativity will cause us action (or inaction) that will lead us to the result we fear the most.